Historical Fiction
The Gray Mills of Farley
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Sarah Orne Jewett
As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by B…
Post Haste
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R. M. Ballantyne
In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post …
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw
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Frances Milton Trollope
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies hi…
The Spanish Brothers
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Deborah Alcock
The daughter of a minister, Deborah Alcock wrote novels on a Christian theme. The Spanish Brothers is set in the sixteenth century and deals…
Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile
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Alexandre Dumas
This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the event…
Jess
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H. Rider Haggard
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…
Consider The Elephant
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Aram Schefrin
The common wisdom is that the men who have attacked American Presidents - Czolgosz, Guiteau, Fromme, Hinckley, Moore, Oswald, Zangara - were…
MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac
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Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who g…
The Bridal Wreath
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Sigrid Undset
“The Bridal Wreath” is the first part of the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, for which author Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize in literature…
History and Fiction
Read by Roy Schreiber
Roy Schreiber
Why don't writers who fictionalize history just write fiction? Why did Shakespeare call his character Richard III or King John? Why not ca…
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
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Lawrence Perry
Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian…
The Cornet of Horse
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G. A. Henty
Rupert Holiday is forced to flee England after wounding a miscreant in fight, and joins the Duke of Marlborough in his campaigns during the …
The Pirate
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Sir Walter Scott
The Pirate is set in the island of Shetland in the late 1600s, and is a historical novel based on the life of John Gow, Captain Cleveland in…
Bonaventure, A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
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George Washington Cable
This is a gentle, delightful story of life and love on the bayoux of Acadian Louisiana during the latter half of the 19th century. Bonaventu…
Lady Sybil's Choice
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Emily Sarah Holt
This historical novel is set in the 1100s in France and Jerusalem, following the First Crusade. Part of the story of Guy of Lusignan (a real…
Shakspere: Personal Recollections
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John A. Joyce
A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…
No Surrender
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Constance Elizabeth Maud
Written from the midst of the struggle for female suffrage, Constance Elizabeth Maud’s novel No Surrender (1911) is a Call to Arms. It is a …
The Seats of The Mighty
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Gilbert Parker
For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain …
The Death Disk
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain's "Death Disk" was inspired by the historical account of the execution of Colonel John Poyer of Pembroke, Wales on Apri…
Doxie Dent
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John Ackworth
Following the short story collections, Clog Shop Chronicles and Beckside Lights, John Ackworth completed the adventures of clogger Jabez Cle…